Winter squash - 15 seeds - AB - La ferme Sainte Marthe
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Grow your own winter squash, also known as winter horned squash, with our top-quality seeds. This squash variety is prized for its sweet, flavorful flesh and long shelf life. Its distinctive shape and orange color make it an attractive decoration for your garden or kitchen. Our seeds are carefully selected to guarantee vigorous, productive plants, allowing you to harvest an abundance of squash throughout the growing season.
Growing your own winter squash allows you to enjoy its delicious flavours and multiple uses in the kitchen. Whether for soups, purées, roasts or desserts, this versatile squash is a versatile ingredient for a variety of recipes.Organically grown (AB)
Good to know:
Sowing: April / June
Harvest: August / OctoberWinter squash, also known as horned winter squash, is a semi-hardy variety that produces around 3 fruits per plant. These spinning top-shaped fruits measure around 15-16 cm in height and 12-13 cm in diameter, with an average weight of between 900 g and 1 kg. The flesh of this squash is orange, firm, fine and fragrant, with a slight taste reminiscent of hazelnut and almond, which intensifies after storage for 3 to 4 months.
To sow Winter squash successfully, we recommend planting in April, in pots, in a light location where the temperature is at least 12°C. Place the seeds on edge and keep the soil moist, but not excessively so. Then place the cups near a light source.
After sowing, it's time to start growing winter squash. Transplant the plants in a sunny spot around mid-May, spacing them about 1 m apart in all directions for non-running varieties, and 1.20 m along the row and 2 m between rows for running varieties. Make sure you water regularly, add compost and mulch the base to limit weed growth and preserve moisture.
As for good combinations, avoid planting winter squash next to potatoes, but it will appreciate the proximity of beans and cabbage.
If your squash plant doesn't produce flowers or fruit, this may be due to a number of factors, including hot weather or a lack of pollination. To encourage pollination, attract pollinators close to your crops by sowing floral mixes, for example.
Squash is generally harvested between September and November, mainly around October before the frosts. To know when to harvest, observe the stalk, which becomes corky when the fruit is ready. The fruit should be cut as close as possible to the stem, left to dry for a day in the sun, then stored in a dry, ventilated place at a temperature of between 12 and 20°C.
Information:
- Height: 120 cm
- Life cycle: Annual
- Type: Reproducible seeds
- Plant habit: Bushy
- Soil: Humus
- Germination temperature: 18 to 20 °C
- Sowing depth: Equal to seed size
- Sowing technique: 3-seed pack
- Sowing container: In bucket / In the ground
- Watering frequency: Moderate / Daily
- Exposure: Sun
- Foliage: Deciduous
- Hardiness: Frosty
- Planting: In the ground
- Spacing: 120 cm
- Seed emergence: 10 to 15 days
- Semi to harvest: 80 to 110 days-
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